The University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus

Date: Oct 08 2005
Major: Philosophy (This Major's Salary over time)
I haven't been here all that long, but it's been long enough to see that this isn't the place for me. I'm an out of stater and life-long New Yorker. More than three-quarters of this school is in-staters and that's not a good thing.

Because standards for in-state admission are lowered to keep state funding, the overall quality of classes is brought down. The professors are great, but the students just aren't up to that calibur.

The city of Pittsburgh itself is pretty lame, too. The southside is okay in its own quirky way, but, otherwise, the city is pretty dead. There is no job market and most of the citizens just seem pissed off to be living here.

The school may as well be in the middle of nowhere seeing as most of the students just go to frat and house parties on weekends, something I had quite enough of in a suburban high school.

You can probably get a pretty decent education at this place if you can wade through all of the crap that comes with lower-level courses, but I don't reccomend this for out of staters unless you really want to go to the biggest high school in Pennsylvania.